I ran as an independent, and from my conversations with various Liberal MPs, it seems that internal interests unique to the Liberal Party trumped good governance. That's what happened at the port authority. And that's why even the Liberals, in the run-up to the last election, were afraid to appoint people to the port authority. They were afraid of what it would do to their reputation in Toronto.
Sadly, the response to that by the current government has been to appoint people with no recognition of the governance requirements of the port authority acts.
So we're trying to figure out what Ottawa is doing in our port. We're trying to figure out why Ottawa has an interest in our port. It's surely not for anything that moves in by boat. I'm not even sure the people they've appointed to the port authority know how to swim.